Ferdinand Magellan Famous Quotes



"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church."


Ferdinand Magellan Quotations






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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Sir Winston Churchill

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Henry James

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle

"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place."
Cicero

"I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
Benjamin Disraeli

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Unknown

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Percy Whipple